U.S. Officials Plan to Unveil Charges Tied to Yahoo Hack
March 14 2017 - 10:24PM
Dow Jones News
By Deepa Seetharaman and Aruna Viswanatha
U.S. officials are planning to unveil charges Wednesday related
to the theft of personal data that affected hundreds of millions of
Yahoo Inc. users and disrupted the company's sale to Verizon
Communications Inc., according to people familiar with the
matter.
At least some of the alleged hackers have ties to the Russian
government, said the people, who added the national security
division of the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of
Investigation plan to announce the charges Wednesday morning.
In September, Yahoo revealed hackers penetrated its network in
late 2014 and stole personal data on more than 500 million users.
The company concluded that it had been breached by "a
state-sponsored actor." The 2014 incident was separate from
another, much-larger theft, affecting more than a billion accounts,
that Yahoo disclosed in December and that dated back to 2013.
It is unclear if the charges are related to one or both of the
breaches. The Russian embassy in Washington didn't immediately
return a request for comment.
Earlier Tuesday, Bloomberg reported the Justice Department plans
to accuse four people of participating in the security breaches,
including one person in Canada and three people in Russia.
--Robert McMillan contributed to this article.
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
March 14, 2017 22:09 ET (02:09 GMT)
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